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Beff Jezos
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Beff Jezos writes Beff’s Newsletter, a personal blog at beff.substack.com about ai, philosophy and politics. Since 2022, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Notes on e/acc principles and tenets (2022)”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Beff Jezos's Substack notes on e/acc principles, quoted to explain effective accelerationism and its post-humanist views. Commenters cite the post rather than praising its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Schizoid thoughts about effective accelerationism.
Most-linked posts?
- Notes on e/acc principles and tenets (2022)9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2022-11-28
What Hacker News says?
You're just describing normal techno-optimism. E/acc, as in the Beff Jezos shitposting, is openly and intensely anti-human. From the man himself: > Effective accelerationism (e/acc) in a nutshell: > Stop fighting the thermodynamic will of the universe > You cannot stop the acceleration > You might as well embrace it > A C C E L E R A T E https://beff.substack.com/p/notes-on-eacc-principles-and-ten... where "the ther…
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on “"Accelerationism" is an overdue corrective to years of gloom”Submitted Notes on e/acc principles and tenets (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionEven worse, some factions literally advocate for killing all humans in the pursuit of a synthetic intelligence, and YC's Garry Tan is advocating for these people! Beff Jezos (e/acc founder): "e/acc has no particular allegiance to the biological substrate for intelligence and life, in contrast to transhumanism Parts of e/acc (e.g. Beff) consider ourselves post-humanists; in order to spread to the stars, the light of…
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on “Among the A.I. doomsayers”Submitted Notes on e/acc principles and tenets as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAgreed. I think one of the biggest questions on a lot of A.I. Safety people's minds now is whether Sam's optimism includes techno-optimism. In particular, people on twitter are speculating about whether Sam is, at heart, an e/acc, which is a new term that means Effective Accelerationism. Its use originally started as a semi-humorous dig at E.A. (Effective Altruism) but has started to pick up steam as a major philoso…
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on “Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board”Submitted Notes on e/acc principles and tenets as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe leader considers himself a “post humanist.” In a choice between all humans and one very intelligent AI, he would slam down on the button of “kill all humans.” “e/acc has no particular allegiance to the biological substrate for intelligence and life, in contrast to transhumanism Parts of e/acc (e.g. Beff) consider ourselves post-humanists; in order to spread to the stars, the light of consciousness/intelligence w…
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on “Effective Accelerationism”Submitted Notes on e/acc principles and tenets as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Principles and Tenets of Effective Accelerationism as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes on effective accelerationism principles and tenets as a story · 1 points
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